Non-equilibrium pathways to emergent polar supertextures

Stoica, Vladimir A.; Yang, Tiannan; Das, Sujit; Cao, Yue; Wang, Huaiyu; Kubota, Yuya; Dai, Cheng; Padma, Hari; Sato, Yusuke; Mangu, Anudeep; Nguyen, Quynh L.; Zhang, Zhan; Talreja, Disha; Zajac, Marc E.; Walko, Donald A.; DiChiara, Anthony D.; Owada, Shigeki; Miyanishi, Kohei; Tamasaku, Kenji; Sato, Takahiro; Glownia, James M.; Esposito, Vincent; Nelson, Silke; Hoffmann, Matthias C.; Schaller, Richard D.; Lindenberg, Aaron M.; Martin, Lane W.; Ramesh, Ramamoorthy; Matsuda, Iwao; Zhu, Diling; Chen, Long-Q; Wen, Haidan; Gopalan, Venkatraman; Freeland, John W.

doi:10.1038/s41563-024-01981-2

Title: Non-equilibrium pathways to emergent polar supertextures

Journal Article · 23 September 2024 · Nature Materials

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-024-01981-2 · OSTI ID:2434005

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Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS); SLAC
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
Indian Institute of Science (IIS) (India)
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Sayo, Hyogo (Japan); RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo (Japan)
Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)
Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Institute (PULSE)
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)
RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo (Japan)
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States). Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS)
Stanford Univ., CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States). Photon Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering Institute (PULSE); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science (SIMES)
University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Rice Univ., Houston, TX (United States)
University of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Ultrafast stimuli can stabilize metastable states of matter inaccessible by equilibrium means. Establishing the spatiotemporal link between ultrafast excitation and metastability is crucial to understand these phenomena. Here, in this work, we utilize single-shot optical pump–X-ray probe measurements to capture snapshots of the emergence of a persistent polar vortex supercrystal in a heterostructure that hosts a fine balance between built-in electrostatic and elastic frustrations by design. By perturbing this balance with photoinduced charges, an initially heterogeneous mixture of polar phase disorders within a few picoseconds, leading to a state composed of disordered ferroelectric and suppressed vortex orders. On the picosecond–nanosecond timescales, transient labyrinthine fluctuations develop, accompanied by the recovery of the vortex order. On longer timescales, these fluctuations are progressively quenched by dynamical strain modulations, which drive the collective emergence of a single vortex supercrystal phase. Our results, corroborated by dynamical phase-field modelling, reveal non-equilibrium pathways following the ultrafast excitation of designer systems to persistent metastability.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division (MSE); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities (SUF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; AC02-06CH11357; AC02-76SF00515; SC0012375; SC0020145

OSTI ID:: 2434005

Journal Information:: Nature Materials, Journal Name: Nature Materials Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 23; ISSN 1476-1122

Publisher:: Springer NatureCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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